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convent

[ kon-vent, -vuhnt ]

noun

  1. a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. a society or association of monks, friars, or nuns: now usually used of a society of nuns.
  3. the building or buildings occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.

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  4. Obsolete. assembly; meeting.


convent

/ ˈɒԱəԳ /

noun

  1. a building inhabited by a religious community, usually of nuns
  2. the religious community inhabiting such a building
  3. Also calledconvent school a school in which the teachers are nuns
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

convent

  1. A community of people in a religious order , especially nuns .
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of convent1

1175–1225; < Medieval Latin conventus; Latin: assembly, coming together, equivalent to conven ( ī ) ( convene ) + -tus suffix of v. action; replacing Middle English covent < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin, as above
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of convent1

C13: from Old French covent, from Latin conventus meeting, from convenī to come together; see convene
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His fiancée did not learn of it for some time, and she eventually took the veil, becoming a Dominican nun at a convent in Monterey — California’s first native-born Catholic sister.

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He’s even better as Irish coal-seller Bill Furlong, another man forced to fight his conscience when he discovers that his local convent doubles as a labor camp for unwed moms.

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The current owner acquired Lock House in 2003 from a property trader, who had previously purchased it after the convent relocated to Albourne.

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The most fascinating is the complex compositional analysis of the figures in Leonardo’s second most famous painting, “The Last Supper,” that vast fresco in a communal dining room of a Dominican convent in Milan.

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“The root of it is still quite traditional and patriarchal in that these powerful women have to be sequestered from men and are essentially living in a convent,” Williams says.

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